How to implement a swipe to delete listview to remove data from firestore

Question

Im very new to flutter and dart so this might be a basic question. However, what I would like to know is how to implement a swipe to delete method in a listview to delete data from firestore too.

I tried using the Dissmissible function but i dont understand how to display the list and I cant seem to understand how to remove the selected data as well.

This here is my dart code

Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return new Scaffold(
  resizeToAvoidBottomPadding: false,
  appBar: new AppBar(
    centerTitle: true,
    automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
    title: Row(mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.spaceBetween,children: 
<Widget>[
      Text("INVENTORY",textAlign: TextAlign.center,) ,new IconButton(
          icon: Icon(
            Icons.home,
            color: Colors.black,
          ),
          onPressed: () {
            Navigator.push(
              context,
              SlideLeftRoute(widget: MyHomePage()),
            );
          })]),
  ),body: ListPage(),
);
  }
}

 class ListPage extends StatefulWidget {
   @override
  _ListPageState createState() => _ListPageState();
  }

class _ListPageState extends State<ListPage> {

Future getPosts() async{
var firestore = Firestore.instance;

QuerySnapshot gn = await 
firestore.collection("Inventory").orderBy("Name",descending: 
false).getDocuments();

return gn.documents;

}

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Container(
  child: FutureBuilder(
      future: getPosts(),
      builder: (_, snapshot){
    if(snapshot.connectionState == ConnectionState.waiting){
      return Center(
        child: Text("Loading"),
      );
    }else{

      return ListView.builder(
          itemCount: snapshot.data.length,
          itemBuilder:(_, index){
            return EachList(snapshot.data[index].data["Name"].toString(), 
snapshot.data[index].data["Quantity"]);
          });
    }
  }),
 );
 }
}


class EachList extends StatelessWidget{
final String details;
final String name;
EachList(this.name, this.details);
@override
 Widget build(BuildContext context) {
// TODO: implement build
return new Card(
  child:new Container(
    padding: EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
    child: new Row(
      mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.spaceBetween,
      children: <Widget>[
        new Row(
          children: <Widget>[
            new CircleAvatar(child: new Text(name[0].toUpperCase()),),
            new Padding(padding: EdgeInsets.all(10.0)),
            new Text(name, style: TextStyle(fontSize: 20.0),),
          ],
        ),
        new Text(details, style: TextStyle(fontSize: 20.0))
      ],
    ),
  ),
);
  }

}

Solution 1

You should use Dismissible widget. I used it for an inbox list retrieved from Firestore. Inside your EachList return something like this

return Dismissible(
        direction: DismissDirection.startToEnd,
        resizeDuration: Duration(milliseconds: 200),
        key: ObjectKey(snapshot.documents.elementAt(index)),
        onDismissed: (direction) {
          // TODO: implement your delete function and check direction if needed
          _deleteMessage(index);
        },
        background: Container(
          padding: EdgeInsets.only(left: 28.0),
          alignment: AlignmentDirectional.centerStart,
          color: Colors.red,
          child: Icon(Icons.delete_forever, color: Colors.white,),
        ),
        // secondaryBackground: ..., 
        child: ...,
      );

    });

IMPORTANT: in order to remove the list item you'll need to remove the item from the snapshot list as well, not only from firestore:

_deleteMessage(index){
  // TODO: here remove from Firestore, then update your local snapshot list
  setState(() {
    snapshot.documents.removeAt(index);
  });
}

Here the doc: Implement Swipe to Dismiss

And here a video by Flutter team: Widget of the week - Dismissilbe

Solution 2

You can use the flutter_slidable package to achieve the same.

You can also check out my Cricket Team on Github in which I have did the same you want to achieve, using same package.

Example for how to use package are written here.

Comments

[Damsara Perera]

it works! Thanks a lot. I was wondering though how to do it if I wanted to edit the details as well?

[Damsara Perera]

and also. What does the deleteMessage function do?

[tyirvine]

As @Marco mentions, it is wise to remove the document from the snapshot as well. I just use a BLoC to handle this